Why is casual racism/sexism more accepted in video games than other forms of media (these days)?

Yeah I think he's joking

Sam Kriss @sam_kriss · 1h 1 hour ago
Passionate About Pixels. Frontline #GamerGate Soldier. I Googled Bell Hooks Once So Don't You DARE Try To Tell Me What Sexism Is.

hahaha

Mike Cernovich ‏@PlayDangerously 14h14 hours ago
An anonymous tipster in PR informed me Gawker is engaging in astroturfing. Many of the loudest anti-#GamerGate proponents are on payroll.

the rabbit hole goes even deeper than I imagined

Deepthroat to Cernovich's Woodward & Bernstein

So weird that the right wing response these days is the classic Pee Wee Herman "I know you are but what am I?" defense

Many people who disagree with GamerGate work for a company. Indeed, there is troubling evidence that suggests huge swaths of those who disagree with GamerGate work for one or more companies. I can't disclose my sources lest they be overtaken by the firestorm this post will produce. But worry not, dear reader, I'll keep reporting until they silence me.

Let's send investigators to San Juan and Ponce, smoke this tipster out once and for all.

expressed as a percentage how likely is it that the tipster is a. playing a prank b. fictional

'i'm fighting for ethics in journalism! that's why i'm posting unsourced bullshit on twitter!'

To all appearances, snl did not in fact do a gamergate sketch this weekend.

clearly the threats of #gamergate reprisals cowed them into submission

A PR guy told me that ALL of the SNL skits were really about gamergate

that's how the liberal media works

A PR guy told me that ALL of the SNL skits were really about gamergate

actually the skits were about ethics in gaming journalism

^ the moment the joke died

smh

in the end, i'd like to by sympathetic to gg WAIT WAIT HEAR ME OUT i'm sure the "gaming press" is "corrupt" (no shots to anyone present) in that, to my eyes, it has the same relationship to the games industry that fashion mags to the clothing industry or car mags to the auto industry. there's a thin slice of good writing and history and industry investigation and a huge block of heycheckitout PR

but you look at this thing, over the past several weeks, what they've done, their language, and it's like heeey why does your internet crusade seem to pick up the internet's worst people? why did it, in plain blank fact, start with them?

i mean:

https://twitter.com/tinybaby/status/526771179861073920

who are the people who led the charge against anita sarkeesian before this gg bullshit had a name?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsdIHK8O5yo

warning: anglo cheeky affect, gross shit. kinda funny tho

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yeah but their crusade is not about that type of actual industry capture at all, it's about uncovering the "vast SJW conspiracy"

yes exactly

have we done davis aurini's men's rights / martial arts short movie itt yet? it's incredible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJSGc2ylZe4

oh... oh my god

tommy wiseau would weep

made with a $10k grant from the canadian government. thx canada!

i'm sure the "gaming press" is "corrupt" (no shots to anyone present) in that, to my eyes, it has the same relationship to the games industry that fashion mags to the clothing industry or car mags to the auto industry. there's a thin slice of good writing and history and industry investigation and a huge block of heycheckitout PR

seriously what the fuck do people want? y'all motherfuckers love to see new screenshots, new little bits of info, new trailers, etc etc, that's what YOU FUCKING CLICK okay? So sorry there's no way to dress up like a janitor and sneak into a company and steal a build...

number two, and people don't want to hear this but it's sometimes really fucking irresponsible to write off a game based on a preview...alien isolation looked liked a 10/10 in the months running up, turned out somewhat disappointing.....uncharted, on my honor, looked like a FUCKING MESS the E3 prior to release....the last deus ex which turned out pretty cool look like actual feces when we saw it...

the fact is that games are fucking super complicated and some games that look great early never develop, some games look like a hot mess and they throw 700 ppl on them in the last 6 months and they turn out great!

you can talk about fundamental probz or concerns with design, and possible technical shit that may be a concern of not getting fixed, but it's hard, they can implement some new physics on something or new textures or new camera shit and it can break a whole bunch of stuff.....

so i'm sorry but i see ppl say this shit a lot and in my experience it's good to express concerns about stuff that could be issues moving forward but it's honestly hard to tell how shit turns out IMO.

if anyone could show me a form of entertainment journalism that's ever been PRIMARILY investigative i'd love to see it

I know this is getting stale at this point but still lolled

https://twitter.com/caseyjohnston/status/524963580983390208

I got to "Abuser, abused: two sides of the same coin" and had to stop watching

also can I say what I want from gaming journalism is pretty much what I've gotten from PC Gamer, Edge and Game Informer; articles about games, reviews that describe the gameplay and storylines if necessary, a shit-ton of screenshots, and a list of release dates

haha, that's exactly where I stopped x-post.

hey ums i think i came off a little too harsh and i want to reiterate that i have immense respect for you and enjoy your work

i put "corrupt" in scare quotes because i think that yeah an enthusiast or entertainment press is just naturally, inevitably going to have a different relationship to the industry it covers than general journalism will to general industry. and that's fine! the analogies of fashion and car mags weren't meant to be damning: you pick them up because you want to look at clothes or cars.

what they charge as corruption (esp in the indie scene) is not that at all. they're treating it like they've just discovered that pravda is run by the comintern or something.

anyway, sorry

Next Gen used to be my shit

actually PC Gamer also had a hardware column that used to be fantastic until they promoted the dude who wrote it to EiC

no worries goole

it's just like gamers say they want "investigative journalism" but they really want angry blogs about how some game isn't in 1080p

It actually seems like gamergaters have a pretty coherent position -- using money/advertising to gain favorable coverage is ok, even encouraged, it's only using "sexual charms" that is corrupt

http://actuallyethics.tumblr.com/image/101067587454

=(

the only context under which "investigative gaming journalism" makes sense is if someone actually uncovers an indoctrination plot where someone is using a shooting game to train its players to become more efficient killers, and well http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s_Army#Reception

xp: well that meme was fun while it lasted

Dan, The Last Starfighter is not a true story

Just checking to make sure the picture of IT in the sewage drain has already been captioned with 'Actually, it's about...'

Actually, it's about 1080p

yeah the point here is that focused mags are inherently "in bed" with the industry they cover (what up guitar magazines), what these fucksticks dont seem to realize is that its always been that way, and it isnt a problem per se. this whole ethics in journo crap is a bunch of ignorant dudes getting rope a doped by outside right wing woman hating shitheels that convince them that their little special world is under attack. ive got a whole conspiratorial swing here that wonders if koch brother style operators are standing by to mobilize low info voters into sandbagging womens issues for years because feminazis are stealing their precious RTS man club.

Someone throw some cash at me, I'll do some objective videogame reviews.

"This game is 1.1 GB in size, which is 300 MB larger than its predecessor."

^ But are these numbers in base 2 or base 10? Is DJP actually a biased Mac gamer?

http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/a-90-second-guide-to-determine-if-your-internet-cause-bs/
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i found this because i had the thought "what does seanbaby think about gamergate?" i had that thought. time for a break

just look at this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Gamergate_controversy

don't actually

xp Late to the party I'm afraid, Dan.

is that one of their new sites?

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